EDF - Reporting scope and methodology

EDF has published information on sustainable development since 2001.

All the published accountability indicators follow the recommendations of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI 3), the international reference framework for sustainable development indicators. A table illustrating this commitment to compliance with GRI methodology can be found in the summary tables of the performance indicators.

In addition to the reporting of the sustainable development indicators defined by the Group, the reporting process includes the quantification of expenditure on environmental protection. This is included in this report and enables the Group's response to the mandatory annual survey by the INSEE, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies - a Directorate General of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Employment Statistics Bureau - relating to corporate expenditure on environmental protection.

Since 2005, the Group has engaged in the progressive verification of its environmental and social data and has submitted a sample of this environmental and social data for external assessment. The Group aims to bolster the reliability of the annual reporting of its consolidated sustainable development accountability indicators by further ensuring quality control at every level of data compilation and consolidation, and better understanding and application of the reporting procedures defined in the Group guidelines (Référentiel du Groupe).

A number of improvements were introduced in 2010 based on the experience gained in previous years and such initiatives will be pursued in 2011. The year 2010 was, notably, marked by the continued harmonization of the methods and definitions in the Group's reporting guidelines and by the publication of new indicators.

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